Tired editors and club kids alike let off post-fashion week steam on Wednesday evening for one final NYFW party. Celebrating their exclusive brand partnership, Gucci and Saks took over burlesque club The Box for a night of cocktails and dancing, featuring a DJ set by Mark Ronson and a surprise performance by Q-Tip. Guests including James Turlington — breakout model son of none other than Christy Turlington — Rowan Blanchard, Jeremy O. Harris, Satchel Lee, Diplo, Hari Nef, Surfbort, Asia Chow and more joined Gucci president and chief executive officer Marco Bizzarri and Saks president Marc Metrick.
The party marked the exclusive partnership between Gucci and the retailer, which includes a takeover of the window displays on Fifth Avenue.

GARDEN GROWS: “I like to see mysterious relationships develop,” said curator Maria Luisa Frisa at a preview on Tuesday of a new exhibition at the Gucci Garden Galleria in the Palazzo della Mercanzia in Florence, geared at illustrating the evolution of Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele’s universe in relationship to the archives as he weaves narratives and mythologies by combining and juxtaposing his personal memories and those of the House.
Prior to the tour, guests were given a walk-through of Florence’s Boboli Gardens to take in the progress of a major restoration plan being financed by Gucci in collaboration with the Uffizi Gallery and the city of Florence.
Emblazoning the main wall of the opening room of the new exhibition at Gucci Garden, meanwhile, is a decor by Japanese artist Yuko Higuchi depicting a large, fantastical creature incorporating a number of Gucci codes, like the green-red-green web stripe ribbon, Kingsnake and Tiger.

The artwork by Yuko Higuchi.
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On display in the space are interpretations of what Frisa described as “one of the most charismatic motifs in the history of fashion” — the interlocking G. Items range from a 1969 dress in an original GG fabric and leather inserts to a chocolate velvet devoré suit

Gucci is under fire once again for cultural appropriation.
The Italian fashion house is being criticized for selling a headscarf for $ 790 called “Indy Full Turban,” with many on social media claiming the accessory and its name are insensitive toward the Sikh culture.
The headscarf was previously available for purchase on Nordstrom’s web site, but has since been marked as “sold out.” The name has also been changed on the retailer’s web site to appear as “Indy Full Head Wrap” instead of “Indy Full Turban.” The product doesn’t appear to be listed on any other retailers or Gucci’s own e-commerce site.
The product itself made its debut on multiple white models during Gucci’s fall 2018 runway, the same runway show that featured the brand’s balaclavas, which also came under fire earlier this year because of its claims of resembling blackface. Gucci quickly removed the product from its stores and retailers in February and issued an apology, stating: “We consider diversity to be a fundamental value to be fully upheld, respected and at the forefront of every decision we make.”

The Gucci sweater has been removed from stores and online.
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JOBS FOR REFUGEES: Italian luxury fashion companies Gucci and Roberto Cavalli have been awarded with the “Welcome. Working for Refugee Integration” prize.
The recognition is part of a program with the same name, spearheaded by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR, which both companies committed to in 2018. The initiative is aimed at promoting inclusivity and human rights of refugees escaping from war-torn countries by enhancing their financial independence through job positions and training.
In particular, Gucci introduced a pilot project last year to offer professional education and add to the label’s workforce young people from Gambia, Nigeria, Somalia, Mali, Ucraina and Senegal. Gucci partnered with the Adecco Foundation for Equal Opportunities and social cooperative Cenacolo di Firenze on the project.
“This accolade bears witness to our commitment to favoring the professional integration of refugees and to supporting their process of integration in Italy, as well as to promoting and sensitizing our employees to an inclusive society model that can prevent and combat xenophobic and racist sentiment against asylum seekers and beneficiaries of international protection,” said Marco Bizzarri, president and chief executive officer of Gucci.
In addition, the Kering-owned company on World Refugee Day on June 20 last year hosted in

MILAN — Gucci will cap off the upcoming Men’s Fashion Week in January with a performance event here.
As Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana president Carlo Capasa revealed during a press conference on Wednesday presenting the schedule of the city’s upcoming fashion week, the fashion label — which will return to Milan in February with a coed show after it decamped to Paris last September for one season — will host the “Motus presents MDLSX with Silvia Calderoni” performance event at its Gucci hub headquarters on Jan. 14. The performance, which will be produced by independent theater company Motus and directed by Enrico Casagrande and Daniela Nicolò, will blend a monologue by Calderoni and video projections exploring the notion of gender identity in a play inspired by the 2003 novel “Middlesex” by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides. Capasa dubbed the event “not to be missed,” noting how important it is for Gucci to be part of the official schedule.
Men’s Fashion Week will run Jan. 11 to 14 and while, as reported, the Giorgio Armani brand is the latest to join the likes of Gucci, Bottega Veneta and Salvatore Ferragamo to skip the January shows to host a coed runway event in February, Emporio Armani

GUCCI RIVIERA: Gucci is launching its latest limited-edition publication, titled “World (The Price of Love).”
Named after a song by the British band New Order, the book includes imagery of the brand’s cruise 2019 collection lensed by photographer Martin Parr.
Known for his documentary photography, Parr shot models sporting Gucci attire and passersby around Cannes, on the French Riviera. In particular, most images are set at the local InterContinental Carlton Cannes hotel and beach club, where talents posed holding ice cream and inflatable beach toys.

Gucci’s “World (The Price of Love)” book.
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With 1,000 copies available, “World (The Price of Love)” will be distributed by London-based independent publisher Idea and will retail at $ 60 starting from Nov. 29, when it will be officially launched at the Gucci Garden in Florence with a special book-signing event with Parr. In addition to the Florence unit, the tome will also be available at the newly opened Gucci Wooster Bookstore in New York, select stores worldwide and on Idea’s e-commerce.
Founded in 2009 by Angela Hill and David Owen, Idea already distributed Gucci’s former limited-edition publications “Disturbia” by Peter Schlesinger, “Hortus Sanitatis” by Derek Ridgers and “Epiphany” by Ari Marcopoulos.

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST: Trevor Andrew, known for his Gucci Ghost collaboration with Gucci, can now add streetwear line Real Buy to his resume.
Andrew was on hand at ComplexCon this past weekend to debut the Real Buy, which was initially teased online on Nov. 1 with a long-sleeve T-shirt. For ComplexCon, the artist brought hand-painted jackets, which lined the walls of his space. There were also short- and long-sleeve T-shirts retailing for $ 65 and $ 90, respectively, bearing seven different designs.
“I’ve always been making stuff so it’s nice when I find somebody that believes in what I’m doing and they give the free reins to do what I do. That’s always a good scenario,” Andrew said of the Real Buy while sitting on a couch in the brand’s booth Saturday.
Andrew’s ComplexCon buildout re-created his Koreatown studio, which he moved into last year after working out of Brooklyn for 17 years. The booth came complete with painted floors mirroring his actual work space and free tattoos done on site.
Andrew’s art has been seen in places such as Dover Street Market in Tokyo and Milk Gallery in New York. The artist, who is a former pro snowboarder, has also worked with the aforementioned

FRIGHT NIGHT: Gucci is getting ready to tell a new scent story with Jared Leto and Lana Del Rey. Channeling the same unconventional spirit as the soon-to-be launched campaign, the fashion house will host a party in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Forever Cemetery Friday night to formally announce Leto and Del Rey as the new faces of its Gucci Guilty fragrances.
Both are noted Los Angeles-based musicians; Leto is the lead vocalist and songwriter for the multiplatinum selling band Thirty Seconds to Mars and also an Academy Award-winning actor, while Del Rey is an Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter known for her stylized cinematic quality and glamour.

Leto and Del Rey will attend the event, joining Gucci’s creative director Alessandro Michele. The enigmatic, eclectic and glamorous duo will show off these sides of their characters in the campaign’s video and images, which also reveal the new bottle design for Gucci Guilty Pour Femme.
Also in attendance will be Courtney Love, recording the night as it unfolds on the Stories of Gucci Beauty’s Instagram account. The singer-songwriter and actress has a guest appearance in the new campaign, which was directed by Glen Luchford with

I DID IT MY WAY: “It was extreme luck,” said a relaxed Marco Bizzarri, president and chief executive officer of Gucci, of tapping Alessandro Michele as creative director of the brand almost four years ago.
A week after Gucci reported a 35.1 percent jump in organic sales to 2.1 billion euros in the third quarter, Bizzarri went over the stages of the remarkable trajectory of the brand under his lead and that of Michele during Altagamma’s first Next Design Perspectives event in Milan on Tuesday. “It was the first time I had the opportunity to choose the designer to work with,” said Bizzarri, recalling his first meeting with Michele at his home in Rome, surrounded by antiques and wearing his fur loafers, which he designed for himself and which would become best-selling and trend-setting items globally.
“The personal connection is as important as talent, and it was more an emotional rather than a rational choice; he was aligned with me,” said the executive, pointing to Michele’s different vision for Gucci from what had been done in the past. “I would love to say it was a formula, but there is a huge dose of luck, I did it my way and it

ART ON THE WALLS: Gucci on Thursday unveiled murals in Milan, New York, London and Hong Kong. The art walls celebrate the upcoming exhibition supported by Gucci called “The Artist Is Present.” Running Oct. 11 to Dec. 16 at Shanghai’s Yuz Museum, the show was curated by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.
The murals re-create the poster of the exhibition, which features an original artwork dating back to 2010 for Marina Abramovic’s “The Artist Is Present” solo show at MoMA in New York. Replicating images of the media campaign for Abramovic’s show resonates with the themes of the exhibition in Shanghai, which explores the art of copying and cultural appropriation.
The murals in New York’s SoHo district, Milan’s Corso Garibaldi, Hong Kong’s D’Anguilar Street and a stone’s throw from London’s Brick Lane will be flanked by an additional art wall in Shanghai’s Jingan district to be unveiled in the coming weeks to promote the opening of the exhibition in the Chinese city.
Although Abramovic is not involved in the project, the artist’s work has provided Cattelan with a source of inspiration. “Copying is like a blasphemy: It could seem not respectful toward God, but at the same time is the significant recognition of its

PALACE BOUND: Gucci revealed on Monday that its spring 2019 collection will be presented at Théâtre Le Palace in Paris on Sept. 24 at 9 p.m. The Italian fashion house said this is the first time the location will host a runway show.
Le Palace, located at 8 Rue du Faubourg-Montmartre, served for years as a nightclub, drawing members of the fashion and music industries as well as an underground culture.
“The Théâtre Le Palace resonates with the vision of the house as it is a venue that gave life to a (sub)culture that has inspired young generations up until today,” said a statement from Gucci.
This is a one-off show for Gucci in Paris and marks the crescendo of a three-part homage to France conceived by the Italian brand’s creative director, Alessandro Michele.
Gucci began its ode to France starting with its pre-fall advertising campaign, which harks back to that country circa 1968, when student marches and riots sparked popular rebellions against military and bureaucratic elites. Photographed and directed by Glen Luchford, it depicts Gucci-clad rebels occupying a university campus, passionately challenging the establishment and asking for change. Luchford’s black-and-white photos are inspired by the bold French Nouvelle Vague imagery of the late Fifties and Sixties and by radical filmmakers François

THE FINNISH LINE: After a weekend in Scotland at the Trump Turnberry resort the Trumps were center stage in Helskini, Finland for the President’s closed-door summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Due back in the Beltway tonight, the first couple started their trip in Brussels for NATO-related business and events, then spent a tumultuous few days in the U.K. More meetings, new conferences and a ceremonial black-tie dinner at Blenheim Palace hosted by Prime Minister Theresa May were in order before a just-under-an-hour tea with Queen Elizabeth II.
Protesters have been a constant in each of the four country stops. A few thousand supporters of Helsinki Calling converged on the city center to urge Trump and Putin to respect human rights, promote peace and take action against climate change, according to Helsingin Sanomat. (Putin was shoulder-to-shoulder with another world leader under highly different circumstances Sunday — joining France President Emanuele Macron on the field after France defeated Croatia in the World Cup.)
For today’s photo-op in Helsinki with her husband and Putin at Helsinki’s Presidential Palace, the First Lady wore a pin-tucked, belted Gucci coat with a butterfly motif. Executives at Gucci declined to comment Monday about her choice or how the publicity has

MILAN — Gucci and Frieze have commissioned Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller and filmmaker and visual artist Josh Blaaberg to create films to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Second Summer of Love, the explosion of electronic music and youth culture that took place in 1988 in the U.K. and across Europe.
In particular, the Second Summer of Love series will explore Acid House’s impact on international contemporary culture, retracing its origins from the Italian disco scene of the mid-Eighties to rave’s role in rebuilding British identity, passing through the adoption of European synth sounds in the house and techno cultures of Chicago, Detroit and New York.
Deller will present “Everybody in The Place: An incomplete history of Britain 1984-1992,” which investigates the social changes that reshaped 1980s Britain through rare and unseen archive materials, mapping the journey from protest movements to abandoned warehouse raves. The footage will include images of an A-level politics class discovering these stories for the first time, showing the perspective of a generation which considers the facts already an ancient history.

A still from Jeremy Deller’s movie “Everybody in the Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992.”
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Blaaberg combines fiction and archival footage in its “Distant Planet: The six chapters of

HAPPY ENDING: Determination can definitely pay off.
Florence-based fashion school Polimoda and Gucci are offering a scholarship to Dutch student Elisa van Barneveld, who in October launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise the money to enroll in Polimoda’s master in fashion retail and management developed in collaboration with the luxury fashion house.
Generating some buzz around her crowdfunding initiative through social media and digital communication, van Barneveld, who was turned down for a loan by her bank, succeeded in collecting 10,000 euros in three months, a sum equivalent to almost half of the tuition fee.
When Polimoda and Gucci learned about the student and her desire to attend the program, they interviewed her and decided to help her raise the total amount required to enroll.

Moved by the courage, resilience and determination of students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Gucci is donating $ 500,000 to the gun-control march planned for Washington next month.
“We stand with March for Our Lives and the fearless students across the country who demand that their lives and safety become a priority,” the Italian fashion house said in a statement released exclusively to WWD. “We have all been directly or indirectly impacted by these senseless tragedies.”
Survivors of the massacre in Parkland, Fla., where a gunman killed 17 people on Feb. 14, are organizing the rally.
According to The Washington Post, organizers are expecting as many as 500,000 attendees at the event, citing details from an event permit application.

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“I am truly moved by the courage of these students,” Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele told WWD. “My love is with them and it will be next to them on March 24. I am standing with March for Our Lives and the strong young women and men across the United States who are fighting for their generation and those to come.”
On Thursday, former President Obama tweeted: “Young people have helped lead all our great movements. How inspiring to see it again in so

LOVE IS IN THE AIR: “He is a genius,” enthused Donatella Versace, speaking of Alessandro Michele, sitting front row at the Gucci show. “When I came in and saw this space, I thought it was a genius idea. I am crazy for it. It’s intriguing. Alessandro thinks outside the box. Usually, an operating room is something scary, but this isn’t — not here,” said Versace, referring to the set unveiled on Wednesday for the show.
Versace has long been a champion of young designers, and has no qualms about praising her peers, including Pierpaolo Piccioli. “They put so much love in their work,” she said of Valentino’s creative director and of Michele. To be sure, it’s a love that comes around as Piccioli and Michele both attended Versace’s spring show last September, together with Anthony Vaccarello.

“I’m very tired.” Alessandro Michele opened his 20-minute post-show press conference with a warning that he might not have much to say. He then went on to address self-creation and re-creation (“We are the Dr. Frankenstein of our lives”), why he titled his Gucci show “Cyborg” after Donna Haraway’s 1984 essay, “A Cyborg Manifesto,” (“Prophetic….She describes the relationship between being and becoming”), whether his work is best understood via a grounding in Catholicism (“I am a lover of the divine. I would celebrate the gods of Olympus rather than our Catholic sanctities”), and why oh why can’t people be the parents of dragons?
Heady stuff? Did I mention that two models carried their own heads as accessories? (OK, pretend heads, but still.) The heads “represented the struggle…all the teenagers make, even people my own age, trying to develop their personality, to nourish their mind deeply.”
The show thus referenced was as weird as it sounds, and even more wonderful than weird. After last season’s in the foggy-dark-under-strobe-lights-you-can’t-see-the-clothes show, for fall, Michele showed in the ultimate of pristine surroundings — an operating room, all surgical green and white lights — installed in the show space of Gucci’s grandly idiosyncratic headquarters far from the

TAX OBLIGATIONS: Gucci and parent company Kering responded on Monday to reports of alleged tax evasion published by Mediapart, a French online investigative and opinion journal; Italy’s L’Espresso weekly, and the German weekly Der Spiegel. The article is based on “confidential documents” that allegedly show how Kering and its chairman and chief executive officer François-Henri Pinault “have set up a structure to remunerate” Marco Bizzarri, president and ceo of Gucci, “through an offshore company in Luxembourg and a fiscal residence in Switzerland.”
“Kering and Gucci have implemented a governance that aspires to ensure full compliance with tax regulations at all levels, including their employees,” said the companies in a statement. “As regards Mr. Bizzarri, he is fully compliant with his tax obligations in Italy, where he is tax resident.”
The report alleges that the offshore company and fiscal residence in Switzerland allowed Bizzarri to save some 15 million euros in taxes and three times as much in the case of Kering. The report traces such a tax break back to 2010. Bizzarri has headed Gucci since 2015, spearheading its case study turnaround with creative director Alessandro Michele. But he first joined Kering as president and ceo of Stella McCartney in 2005.
According to Mediapart, Bizzarri’s salary was

THIS MUST BE THE PLACE: Gucci’s globe keeps spinning as the fashion label has expanded its Gucci Places project to include six new cities to promote.
First unveiled in July, the initiative aims to invite people to explore international locations that are inspirational for the Florence-based fashion house, creating a worldwide community.
The first Gucci Place was Chatsworth in Derbyshire, England, where the brand supported the “House Style” exhibition of clothing and memorabilia from the past 500 years, in addition to setting its cruise 2017 advertising campaign lensed by Glen Luchford.
Each reflecting the taste and an inspiration for the brand, the new locations are Italy’s Biblioteca Angelica library and Castello Sonnino castle, situated in Rome and Tuscany’s Montespertoli, respectively; Maison Assouline in London; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art — or LACMA; the Bibo restaurant in Hong Kong, and the Waltz store in Tokyo.

Similarly to the first Gucci Place, the Gucci app will enable customers to become involved in the story of the new locations. In particular, the app is configured to use the geolocation services of a user’s mobile device so that when a person is in the

LIFE OF LUXURY: Matchesfashion.com, House of Hackney, Farfetch and Gucci were among the winners of the 16th annual Walpole British Luxury Awards, hosted by Catherine Zeta-Jones at The Dorchester in London on Monday night.
Matchesfashion.com scooped the award for British Luxury Brand of the Year, while House of Hackney and Aurelia Probiotic Skincare were among the names that received the Brands of Tomorrow award for Emerging Talent.
Chatsworth and Gucci also won accolades, the former for Cultural Experience and the latter for International Luxury Brand of the Year. It wasn’t the first time that the two names were linked in 2017: Gucci was the sponsor of “House Style: Five Centuries of Fashion at Chatsworth,” a wide-ranging exhibition that ran from March until October at the famous stately in Derbyshire.
Knitwear maker Johnstons of Elgin won for Commitment to British Manufacturing, while Farfetch scooped the Digital prize.
Kingsman and Mr Porter won the Innovation and Creativity award. Earlier this year, the online retailer came out with its second costume-to-collection collaboration with Matthew Vaughn and his “Kingsman” film franchise.
Other British brands also had their moment in the spotlight, with Bentley winning for Luxury Maker of the Year; Glenmorangie for Luxury with a Heart, and Jaguar Land

HAPPY NEW GUCCI: Gucci is embracing the holiday season by unveiling its latest Gift Giving product selection and campaign, which will be extensively supported by digital activities.
Spanning many categories — ranging from T-shirts and footwear to handbags, jewelry, children’s wear and even porcelain items — the product selection is at the core of a new art book released by the house in collaboration with Spanish artist Ignasi Monreal.
Monreal designed a series of digitally created artworks incorporating Gucci products and developing a narrative inspired by the story of the fall of Icarus.
“Icarus fascinates me because of his story, which could be read a bit like a mantra,” said Monreal.
“If you fly too close to the sun, you’re going to get burned. If you fly too low, you’re going to drown in the sea. It feels quite bluntly obvious, but I find it quite timeless and reassuring. You have to find the middle point to land on the other side,” he continued, pointing at the “tricky human condition.” The artist also defined the mythological character as “very romantic and of course symbolic of everything young and pretty. Very East London.”
Illustrations in the book include belt-bags encircling a classical statue, small leather goods set in a contemporary,

WELCOME HOME: Gucci Décor has made its way to Maxfield on Melrose Avenue.
The luxury house’s home line will be sold exclusively on the West Coast at Maxfield’s through the holidays.
The two will celebrate the collection’s launch at the retailer Thursday with a private event that includes a performance from James Righton’s Shock Machine.
It’s another notch in the belt of Maxfield, which has been on a tear over the past year with installations and dedicated pop-ups in its main door and space across the way on Melrose Avenue, hosting brands such as ReadyMade most recently, along with Vetements, Celine, Fear of God, Amiri and Enfants Riches Déprimés, among others.
The boutique will carry a mix of Gucci Décor in addition to clothing and accessories from the brand, interspersed with vintage pieces of furniture from the personal collection of Maxfield founder Tommy Perse. The items will be shown throughout Maxfield’s main Melrose Avenue store in addition to the glass Jean Prouvé house adjacent to the store.

From the Gucci Décor collection.
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The collection features a unique collection of brightly colored, fanciful pieces including five wallpapers, decorative folding screens, a jacquard vanity seat, wooden chairs and velvet cushions. Gucci will also have window space on

RETAIL THEATER: Printemps Haussmann is turning to Gucci designer Alessandro Michele to set a fresh tone for back-to-school with dresses, shoes and bags set in a deep purple, cinema-inspired backdrop.
For seven weeks starting Aug. 26, the Gucci products are to be showcased in a movie-theater-style setting, with the theme stretching from a pop-up store below ground through the escalator banks.
Five wide windows on the women’s store Boulevard Haussmann will be crafted to resemble tiny movie theaters projecting images of the winter collection. Plush seats will be upholstered in various mismatched fabrics, another trademark of the Italian designer, who is lionized in fashion circles for breathing life back to into an iconic Italian brand.

Leather moccasins are part of an exclusive Gucci collection for Printemps.
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The special collection includes a pleated dress in bright pink silk satin, decorated with an oversized rose in the same fabric and carrying a price tag of 2,980 euros.
A reversible pink wool cardigan, embellished with winged insects, will go for 2,500 euros.
Emerald green leather moccasins adorned with a pair of large, earthy moths are priced at 1,100 euros, the same price for a slide-on, fur-lined version.
A matching purse with chain and leather straps will sell for 3,500 euros.

POWER TRIO: Gucci is aware of the power of hashtags in the digital era.
On Friday, the fashion house teased the launch of a still undisclosed project by introducing the hashtag #InBloom.
Gucci revealed it has tapped actress Dakota Johnson; actress, model and writer Hari Nef, along with artist and photographer Petra Collins to front this new initiative.
Johnson, who will appear in James Foley’s “Fifty Shades Darker” movie and in Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” this year, was seated front row at Gucci’s women’s spring show last September. Meanwhile, Nef and Collins walked the brand’s men’s fall 2016 and women’s fall 2016 catwalks, respectively.

One of these things is not like the other. “Trump Tower, Armani, Gucci Only,” reads new signage posted to New York Police Department checkpoints on Fifth Avenue.
It would appear the NYPD posted the signs after growing tired of inquiries from luxury shoppers about store closures near Trump Tower. WWD observed the posters — laden with emboldened arrows — as they abated confusion for the Alessandro Michele-crazed.
“[The signs] have been here one week, maybe two,” said a police officer posted at 57th Street and Fifth Avenue, at the corner of Tiffany & Co. He was unable to verify if the signs had been printed by the NYPD or if they had been issued by the Trump Tower in an effort to appease its tenant, Gucci, and the neighboring Armani. Both stores are understood to be feeling the impact of reduced traffic, with passerby mitigated by security barricades.

The new police signage near Trump Tower, with Gucci’s representative stationed behind barricades in a branded scarf.
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Tiffany’s branded barricades are still on view, with coordinating bellhops posted at the entryways. “I think it was the NYPD [who put up the signs]. They were being asked about the stores every two seconds, so it saves them a lot

For those too shy to adopt Gucci’s overblown romanticism, a tamer, more wearable alternative arrives on May 12th in the form of a mini-collection designed by Alessandro Michele for Net-a-Porter.WSJ.com: Lifestyle

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The acclaimed author of Original Cyn finds fertile ground for her wicked wit in this ferociously funny new novel about babies, sex, celebrity…and daring to date a gynecologist.Ruby (still single at thirty-two) Silverman has made a name for herself at Les Sprogs, her exclusive baby boutique where trust-fund mothers swaddle their infants in the hottest designer wear. But all those bumps and babes can’t prepare Ruby for the bombshell her fifty-year-old mother drops on her: Ruby’s about to get…a baby brother or sister! When Ruby recovers from the shock of her mother’s pregnancy, she can’t help but question her own baby-making future. Is catering to celebrity moms and cooing over her friends’ kids all she has to look forward to? Sam Epstien would passionately disagree. He’s the gorgeous Jewish gynecologist who has set his amorous sights on her. Soon they’re seriously involved, and life seems to be looking up for Ruby. Until she stumbles upon a shady baby-brokering business that could erupt into a major scandal, derail her career, and maybe even force her to toss the supposedly perfect man out with the bathwater.
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The acclaimed author of Neurotica finds fertile ground for her wicked wit in this ferociously funny new novel about babies, sex, celebrity… and daring to date a gynecologist.

Ruby (still single at thirty-two) Silverman has made a name for herself at Les Sprogs, her exclusive baby boutique where trust-fund mothers swaddle their infants in the hottest designer wear. But all those bumps and babes can’t prepare Ruby for the bombshell her fifty-year-old mother drops on her: Ruby’s about to get… a baby brother or sister!

When Ruby recovers from the shock of her mother’s pregnancy, she can’t help but question her own baby making future. Is catering to celebrity mums and cooing over her friends’ kids all she has to look forward to? Sam Epstein would passionately disagree. He’s the gorgeous Jewish gynecologist who has set his amorous sights on her. Soon they’re seriously involved, and life seems to be looking up for Ruby. Until she stumbles upon a shady baby-brokering business that could erupt into a major scandal, derail her career, and maybe even force her to toss the supposedly perfect man out with the bathwater.

Gucci Guilty for Women by Gucci 2.5 oz 75 ml EDT Spray Guilty Made for the woman who shatters expectations, this fragrance imbues a feeling of power, a sense that she can attain whatever she wants-even the thrill of the forbidden. A sheer, floral-oriental fragrance, it opens with a bright burst of citrus and a dangerous hint of black pepper. This arresting introduction gives way to full-throttle femininity as its heart pulses with fruity and floral notes. The fragrance dries down to a rich, ambery base with notes of patchouli. The overall effect is young, stylish, and eminently wearable-a daring edge of sexiness and sensuality that captures the essence of Gucci. The stunning bottle fuses glass and metal, a feature revealed through Gucci’s signature interlocking “G” characters. At the center of the iconic logo’s letterforms, the bottle’s gleaming metallic surface is elegantly cut away to expose the bottle’s glass interior. Notes: Mandarin, Pink Pepper, Peach, Lilac, Geranium, Amber, Patchouli. Style: Daring. Rich. Sexy.